Better Typography
Posted by on Wednesday, May 25, 2005 in
An interesting series from Mark Boulton on Five simple steps to better typography. • Measure the measure • Hanging punctuation • Ligatures • Typographic Hierarchy - size • Typographic Hierarchy - weight
Your Own Standard
Posted by on Friday, March 18, 2005 in
Referring back to an old bookmark of mine, here is an interesting perspective on web standards by Mike Davidson. • “By invalidating my entire site with this one line of code, I ensure that I am made aware the instant it matters. The instant this stuff starts to break anything in the real world … read more »
Must Know HTML Entities
Posted by on Thursday, September 23, 2004 in
“Character entity references, or entities for short, provide a method of entering characters that cannot be expressed in the document's character encoding or that cannot easily be entered on a keyboard. • –htmlhelp.com” • I use them on a regular basis but consistently forced to look them up … read more »
Web Standards Solutions
Posted by on Thursday, June 24, 2004 in
I have a number of Photoshop books but very few that deals with markup and web technologies. As a nice alternative, I got a chance to read Dan Cederholm's Web Standards Solutions this week. Dan's website is SimpleBits, a well known site with regular post about xhtml, css and the standards of web …
Web Standards Protest Day
Posted by on Wednesday, June 23, 2004 in
This was one of those long articles I bookmarked from my RSS reader to read later and then the time slipped away. Yesterday on DeltaTangoBravo, Daniel linked to this same article I probably would have forgotten about. • Although protesting may not be the answer, the points brought up in this …
ColorMatch 5K
Posted by on Friday, October 4, 2002 in
Seen this site on technoblog.com • "This utility will help you select a matching 6-color palette for your website. Define a single color that you like. Matching colors will be calculated. Click a color in the palette to promote it to the primary color." • colormatch.dk